Nature Communications (Aug 2020)

Coordination engineering of iridium nanocluster bifunctional electrocatalyst for highly efficient and pH-universal overall water splitting

  • Qilun Wang,
  • Cong-Qiao Xu,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Sung-Fu Hung,
  • Hong Bin Yang,
  • Jiajian Gao,
  • Weizheng Cai,
  • Hao Ming Chen,
  • Jun Li,
  • Bin Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18064-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Water electrolysis offers a promising energy conversion technology, although there is still a need to understand the catalysis on the atomic-level. Here, the authors report Ir nanoclusters coordinated with both N and S as an efficient and pH-universal electrocatalyst for overall water splitting.